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What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?

Both Sides of the Table

Should SaaS companies trade at a 24x Enterprise Value (EV) to Next Twelve Month (NTM) Revenue multiple as they did in November 2021? Even then private market investors can paper over valuation changes by investing at the same price but with more structure so it’s hard to understand the “headline valuation.” It’s just math.

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How to Promote School Network Scalability

Southern California Edison Blog

School network scalability is essential for ensuring that schools have a reliable network. The education sector tends to have limited resources dedicated to IT investments which can make it challenging for schools to integrate the network technologies and keep up with the latest advancements.

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Nothing negative about Positive Food’s meal expansion plan after $7M investment

TechCrunch LA

Positive Food’s vertical integration technology is mainly done in-house, including production and a cold-chain logistics network. He said the company has been growing in double-digits month over month, had zero churn and produced five times as much food this year versus the same time period in 2021. “We

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Food Rocket blasts off after securing funding, grocery delivery deal with Circle K parent

TechCrunch LA

The new $25 million in Series A investment, led by Alimentation Couche-Tard via its Circle K Venture Fund, will enable Food Rocket to deliver in 26 countries and territories, including more than 7,000 U.S. locations. He also wants to take a step further eventually and deliver other items like phones.

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Down bad

TechCrunch LA

Few companies have to deal with the stressed of both crypto and public markets like Coinbase which laid off more than 1,100 people this week, but plenty of startups raised mega-rounds in 2021 to theoretically future-proof their companies. Since then, the firm, which claimed to have 1.7 the week in web3.

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Reflections on 2020: Carey Ransom, Operate

socalTECH

We made 7 investments in SoCal founders in our first year (out of 8 total), and even the 1 exception has deep SoCal ties and we hope to relocate her here in 2021. We've expanded our network activity outside of SoCal to potentially invest in and recruit founders and talent to the region. Contact our editors for details.

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Reflections on 2020: Jim Eubanks, Tax Managing Director, KPMG

socalTECH

Fortunately KPMG had made investments in technology to make the transition to remote work as successful as possible. We have been able to pull certain levers to maintain some consistency and a level of connection with our employees, but we are continuing to invest heavily in this area to position our employees to have long term success.